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District of Columbia, 1835

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Tartariae Sive Magni Chami Regni typus [‘Tartary’, Japan and the west coast of North America], 1592

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Imperium Turcicum in Europa, Asia, et Africa Regiones [The Ottoman Empire], 1720

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Abissinorum Sive Pretiosi Joan [Central Africa with an inset of Congo], 1606.

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Southeast Asia, China and India, 1478 by Claudius Ptolemy

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Amsterdam, 1866

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Culiacanae, Americae Regionis (with Cuba, Hispaniola and Baja California), 1579. Dutch made.

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Poverty map of the East End of London, 1889. Yellow = Upper-middle and upper classes. Red = Lower middle class, ‘well-to-do’ middle class. Pink = ‘Fairly comfortable’ earnings. Blue = Intermittent or casual earnings. Black - Lowest class. Occasional laborers, street sellers, criminals, etc.

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Islandia (Iceland), 1595 by Abraham Ortelius

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1747 by Emanuel Bowen

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Tabula Indiae Orientalis et Regnorum Adjacentium, 1724 by Francois Valentijn

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French map of Siam, 1686

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Carte de la Turquie, 1719 by Henri Chatelain.

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The lower Thames, 1840.

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Germany and Italy in 1803